Sunday, June 27, 2010
Books "Writers to Watch" in Atlanta
Posted by Wyatt Williams @wyatt_williams on Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 4:40 PM
A few interesting lists have popped up as a response, including one from lit blog The Millions that followed similar guidelines to create a non-overlapping list. Their "alternate-universe" picks include Chris Bachelder, Myla Goldberg, Victor LaValle, and number of other established young guns.
Earlier this week, though, the founders of Dzanc Books, a Michigan-based small press, published a list of emerging writers that didn't follow the same editorial process. Instead, they polled "nearly 100 independent publishers, agents, editors, bloggers and reviewers" with the intention of creating a list "drawn not from a singularly New York view of publishing but from the wider world of the American independent presses." The result, 20 Writers to Watch, includes some names with cult-ish followings like Kelly Link and Gary Lutz along with two from Atlanta's burgeoning literary scene, Blake Butler and Jamie Iredell.
Butler is the author of a novella, Ever, and a novel-in-stories, Scorch Atlas, which was shortlisted for the Believer Book Award. A new novel, There is No Year, is due from Harper Perennial at the beginning of next year. He's well known as the editor of HTMLGiant: the Internet Literature Magazine Blog of the Future.
Jamie Iredell's chapbooks were collected and published as Prose. Poems. A Novel last year. His latest, The Book of Freaks, is forthcoming from Future Tense Books this fall. He's a recent graduate of the GSU Ph.D in Creative Writing program.
Both authors help run Solar Anus, a reading series here in Atlanta.
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